corrido
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of corrido
< Mexican Spanish, Spanish; see corrida
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Signed with Rimas Entertainment, Hermosillo singer Mosmo is bringing his own crooning element to the corrido world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026
“Adelita” is an adaptation of a traditional Mexican corrido, a traditional epic poem that can be set to music.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2025
Veytia, a portly figure with a bushy mustache, seemed an unlikely Eliot Ness, but he was credited with reducing violence and hailed as “the terror of every criminal” in a laudatory corrido, or ballad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2025
During “Luna,” a slow burn off Pluma’s 2023 album “Génesis,” the corrido tumbado singers join forces to deliver a heartfelt performance of the romantic ballad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025
This folk-tale, it might be noted, is based directly on a corrido, The Story of the Life of Doña Maria of Murcia, Manila, 1909.
From Filipino Popular Tales by Fansler, Dean Spruill
He cut his teeth by penning career-defining songs for his famous cousin, Peso Pluma — including anthemic corridos like “El Belicon,” “Siempre Pendientes” and “AMG.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Música mexicana’s boom has reimagined sounds passed down through generations with corridos, rancheras, norteño, banda and sierreño for the streaming era.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
That’s what corridos is all about, and that’s why I got into the music scene.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
He’s memorialized in corridos, or Mexican folk ballads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
Rather, he was something of a poet, an inventor of on-the-spot ballads called corridos, and at one time he had been able to read and write in both English and Spanish.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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